From: Jon Smirl Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:12:03 GMT Subject: Re: Git help for kernel archeology, suppress diffs caused by CVS keyword expansion Message-ID: <9e4733910707221212v2f6cc1c4kf7a35e84f351e4cd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 7/22/07, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > It would really be useful if git diff had an option for suppressing > > diffs caused by CVS keyword expansion. > > I really think it's not a "git diff" issue, but it might be a "import" > issue. > > IOW, I think you'd be a *lot* better off just not importing those things > in the first place (which is what CVS does internally), or possibly > importing them as two trees (ie you'd have the "non-log" version and the > "log expansion" version, so that you can track and compare both). > > Doing the thing at "diff" time is certainly possible, but this is simply > much better done as a totally independent preprocessing phase. The diff > handling is already some of the more complex parts (and very central), it > would be much simpler and efficient to not try to make that thing fancier, > and instead solve the problem at the front-end. These diffs are coming from companies doing GPL compliance without really wanting to comply. CVS servers are not made available. > > Linus > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com